Omeed Alerasool is an associate in the litigation practice group at Elias Law Group. He has represented civic and labor organizations, political campaigns, and individual voters in pro-democracy, free speech, and election-related lawsuits across the country, including before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals for the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, various federal district courts, and the Supreme Courts of Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as several state trial courts.

Omeed is passionate about advancing democratic governance, civic discourse, and voting rights, and his commentary has appeared in The Hill and HuffPost, among other outlets.

Omeed graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as cofounder and later president of the Equal Democracy Project, teaching fellow for the Election Law Clinic, and as two-term editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and international studies from Boston College. Before joining ELG, Omeed worked at the National Redistricting Foundation, Campaign Legal Center, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, Perkins Coie’s Political Law Group, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Voting Section.

Omeed is based out of Elias Law Group’s Washington, DC office. He is licensed to practice in the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and is also admitted to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, District of New Jersey, Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, and the Western District of Wisconsin.